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| Tim Motzer Art Opening Friday + Art Sale!! Guitarist/painter Tim Motzer will show 18 small works at Bottle Bar East in the Fishtown neighborhood of Philadelphia, beginning on Friday December 6, with an art opening reception at 7 pm that night. Motzer has been painting for 20 years, focusing on abstract impressionistic works for large canvas and smaller works on paper and artboard. He's been designing and creating covers for his label 1k Recordings for the last 20 years as well, and some of the original pieces in this show are indeed album cover original paintings. He's been releasing limited edition handpainted CD editions from his label for about a decade now as a way to bundle his original art and music together. It's been successful in getting his art into the hands of many of his listeners worldwide. This is his first exhibition of smaller work. Tim Motzer's small works 2020 - 2024, is scheduled to run through January 2nd, 2025. If you are looking to buy one of Tim's paintings, plan on making it to his fun opening celebration on December 6th for best selection. All of these imaginative paintings are framed and ready for your wall! For those of you in the Philadelphia vicinity, looking forward to seeing you. Tim Motzer - small works 2020-2024 Bottle Bar East, 1308 Frankford Avenue, Fishtown Opening: 7pm, Friday December 6th TIM MOTZER Artist statement This show, small works 2020 - 2024, reflects a cross section of my smaller works including album covers. These paintings are improvisational, and utilize mixed media: acrylic paint, paint pens, graphite, watercolor, and markers. Many of these paintings came to life while I worked towards album cover art. I have also been painting large scale abstract works (40in x 40in and 48in x 48in) using acrylic and graphite on canvas. As a guitarist—texture, atmosphere, landscape, harmonic color, and line all come together to form the whole. Sonic texture and layering are major components in my music. I am exploring this approach within my paintings, as one medium reflects the other. My goal is to express visually what I hear in my music. I recognize a similar improvisational direction in my painting—collisions, accidents, and densities of color, motion, decay, dream-like states, mystery, and space. Within both music and fine art, I am searching the unknown for beauty, magic, and a sense of wonder. My paintings have been influenced a great deal by traveling the world—these works somehow take on a sense of place to me. I am sure sub-conscious memory, intuition, and emotion play a role in the immediateness of the process. I think through the blur of life, all these experiences bubble to the surface as a burst of expression. T I M M O T Z E R For over two decades of world touring, 12 solo guitar soundscape albums, and a multitude of stunning collaborations and productions including 100+ albums of credits, Tim Motzer continues to "traverse manifold territories in music" (Guitar Player magazine). Tim has been recognized by Prepared Guitar (Madrid, Spain) in their list of top 100 modern guitarists worldwide. Tim is a sonic pioneer and widely known for his distinct textural acoustic-electro guitar voice utilizing looping, bowing, electronics, and prepared techniques. He has collaborated with numerous musical luminaries across genres including poet Ursula Rucker, David Sylvian, Les Nubians, Isaac Hayes, Jaki Liebezeit (CAN), King Britt, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Vernon Reid, David Torn, Pat Mastelotto, and Percy Jones, among others. His co-production with King Britt on the album "Sister Gertrude Morgan" has been heard in films, TV shows, and numerous commercials, with placements including HBO's "True Blood, " the Michael Mann feature film "Miami Vice" as well as the film "Hustle" starring Adam Sandler. From 2016-2020, Tim toured the world playing prestigious venues and jazz festivals with Bandit65, an improvising trio he co-leads with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and drummer Gintas Janusonis; their most release, Searching the Continuum (Heartcore Records), received a rare five-star review from J.D. Considine in Downbeat Magazine. As an in-demand, solo live composer/improviser in the world of modern dance, Tim has co-created alongside master choreographers at Princeton University, American Dance Festival/Duke University, and formerly at the University of the Arts for over 20 years. He has composed and performed with a diverse array of extraordinary choreographers worldwide including Faustin Linyekula, Curt Haworth, Peggy Baker, Shoko Kashima, Chico Katsube, Olivier Tarpaga, Sean Feldman, Won Kim, Sung-im Her, Raphael Xavier, and Manfred Fischbeck, among others. With Olivier Tarpaga, he created an original score for the Limon Dance Company premiere "Only One Will Rise" which was presented at the Joyce Theatre in NYC and Jacobs Pillow. According to the New York Times, "The music — an Afropop stew of percussion, bass and psychedelic guitar by Tarpaga and Tim Motzer — is played live. Never before has a Limón show been this funky." For the past 25 years, Tim has brought his dynamic, eclectic array of musical projects together under his own 1k Recording's imprint, which has over 70 releases and counting. His compositions, recordings, and productions include wide ranging genre-defying solo releases and adventurous collaborations spanning experimental, progressive, acoustic, Afterelectronic, songs, and beyond. "A catalog of music that is as unique as it is unpredictable."(WXPN-FM) Tim has been painting for 20 years, focusing on abstract impressionistic works for large canvas and smaller works on paper and artboard. He's been designing and creating covers for his label 1k Recordings and others for the last 20 years as well, and some of the original pieces in this show are indeed album cover original paintings. He's been releasing limited edition handpainted CD editions from his label for 7 years to bundle his original art and music together. It's been successful in getting his art into the hands of many of his listeners worldwide. This is his first exhibition of smaller work. timmotzer.com write your comments about the article :: © 2024 Jazz News :: home page |